Re: [PATCH 1/1] NFC: Fix possible memory corruption when handling SHDLC I-Frame commands
From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Aug 14 2018 - 09:27:41 EST
On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 03:39:08PM -0700, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> When handling SHDLC I-Frame commands "pipe" field used for indexing
> into an array should be checked before usage. If left unchecked it
> might access memory outside of the array of size NFC_HCI_MAX_PIPES(127).
>
> Malformed NFC HCI frames could be injected by a malicious NFC device
> communicating with the device being attacked (remote attack vector),
> or even by an attacker with physical access to the I2C bus such that
> they could influence the data transfers on that bus (local attack vector).
> skb->data is controlled by the attacker and has only been sanitized in
> the most trivial ways (CRC check), therefore we can consider the
> create_info struct and all of its members to tainted. 'create_info->pipe'
> with max value of 255 (uint8) is used to take an offset of the
> hdev->pipes array of 127 elements which can lead to OOB write.
>
> Suggested-by: Kevin Deus <kdeus@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>